On Wed, 13 Apr 2011, sean finney wrote: > I was only 50% at the last DebConf and missed the CUT BoF, but thought
I missed the BoF too (I was not at DebConf). > reading blogposts etc afterwards that people weren't as focused on the > "branch out stable" approach that I'm talking about, and rather were > more interested in stuff like "snapshot testing", "alternative testing > from unstable", etc). But I could be mistaken. There's clearly 2 sides to CUT: - provide regular snapshots with a working installer - rolling, aka make testing suitable for end-users and something that never freezes The summary article I wrote some time ago presents both aspects: http://raphaelhertzog.com/2010/10/04/can-debian-offer-a-constantly-usable-testing-distribution/ > > While I think this is the long-term goal, it might be more sensible > > to start with rolling and testing in parallel. And I also think it > > requires us to become involved in release matters and to develop > > new tools to streamline the process. > > In the way I had thought of things, "rolling" == "testing". That's to > say that nextstable branches off the main line of development, gets it's > own staging area for updates, and the testing/unstable duo function just as > they did before. So from what I see we would need the nextstable-testing > area, plugged into the autobuild system, and an independant instance of > the release infrastructure as a starting point. Is the "nexstable staging area" the same as "<release>-proposed-updates" in your view ? Or would there be a britney moving stuff from your staging area to nextstable ? > I don't think I've heard anything back from anyone who's actually on > the release team regarding this, but if they were at least non-comittedly > open to the idea, I'd be willing to throw my hat into the ring to help > put something together. Yeah, it would be great to have some feedback from RT team members. I tried to get some indirectly when I interviewed Meddi Dogguy and Adam D. Barratt: http://raphaelhertzog.com/2011/04/07/people-behind-debian-adam-d-barratt-release-manager/ http://raphaelhertzog.com/2010/12/23/people-behind-debian-mehdi-dogguy-release-assistant/ Cheers, -- Raphaël Hertzog ◈ Debian Developer Follow my Debian News ▶ http://RaphaelHertzog.com (English) ▶ http://RaphaelHertzog.fr (Français) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20110413122138.gd3...@rivendell.home.ouaza.com